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Hi, this is Adam Prott in Lensburg, Kansas in the 1898 Smoky Valley Roller Mills.

The only historic mills of its kind in the Midwest that still operates once every year.

That's the mill you're hearing in the background.

This podcast was recorded at 1.19 p.m. on Wednesday, June 4th, 2025. Things may have changed by the time you hear it,

but I'll still be enjoying this glorious noise. Okay, here's the show.

Love a good trivia timestamp. I did not know that about the Mill in Kansas, so thank you.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting.

I'm Hansi Luong. I cover federal agencies. And I'm Stephen Fowler.

I cover government restructuring. And today on the show, Data. Elon Musk and the team that calls itself

the Department of Government Efficiency have gathered a ton of it. But without providing many answers on how

or what their ultimate plans are with it. And now, it seems like those efforts are actually

making it harder for other parts of the government to produce accurate and reliable statistics

about the country. Hansi, this is your lane. You are our government, my personal government data

guru. So I'm hoping you could just get us up to speed on what you're hearing here.

Oh my, that's quite a title. Thank you, Miles.

I think I've earned it because I covered the Census Bureau, and so they're known to produce the

census results, as other key statistics as well.

And they've had, you know, a major problem for decades, fewer people willing to answer

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